About Friends Out There

Friends Out There is a not-for-profit company established in February 2008, currently applying for charitable status. The launch event took place 15 February 2008 in Watford.

• Friends Out There will create connections between different schools and neighbourhoods across the world – working at the local level, globally.
• Friends Out There will use art, music, dance, drama and writing to help people explore diversity and to promote understanding of different cultures.
• Friends Out There will record, evaluate and publish the processes and outcomes of our work so that it can be shared and experienced widely.
• Friends Out There will contribute to the relief of hardship where appropriate in the areas where we work by helping to build financial, social and cultural capital.

Our first project is 'A Little Something About Me.' It has involved linking children at a school in Umulogho, Nigeria, with children in school in Watford and Bushey, UK. We have worked with hundreds of children on their ways of life, aspirations, concerns and hindrances, exploring contrasts and similarities with them and their parents.